Intercomprehension workshop for staff members of all Unite! universities

Intercomprehension is the competence or strategy to understand languages that we haven’t learned yet, but that are part of the same language family of a language we already know. In the workshop, intercomprehension as a strategy will be explained and tested. The workshop will take place in December 2024 and January 2025, apply by 30. November.

Expertise of all nine Unite! Universities

The first cohort of PhD candidates has officially begun their studies within this collaborative framework and are already benefitting from a common training offer from the 9 Partner Universities and the most advanced educational programs. Discover the catalogue.

DFG Research Training Group 2516 with the participation of TU Darmstadt extended

The German Research Foundation is funding the Research Training Group ‘Control of the structural formation of soft matter at and by means of interfaces’ (GRK 2516) under the leadership of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) for a further four and a half years. Other members include the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the University of Stuttgart. Leading researchers of the GRK are also significantly involved in CoM2Life, with which JGU and TU Darmstadt are applying for funding as a Cluster of Excellence.

Evaluation by experts has started

The evaluation phase for the Cluster of Excellence proposals has begun: the first Hessian cluster projects were evaluated by experts in Bonn. The projects under the leadership or participation of the TU Darmstadt ‘RAI’, ‘TAM’ and ‘CoM2Life’ will have the opportunity to convince the reviewers in January.

Long-sought measurement to determine the timescale of the Sun’s birth

Have you ever wondered how long it took our Sun to form in its stellar nursery? An international collaboration of scientists is now closer to an answer. They succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionised thallium (205Tl81+) ions at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) of GSI/FAIR. This measurement has profound effects on the production of radioactive lead (205Pb) in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and can be used to help determine the Sun’s formation time. The results have been published in the journal Nature.

Awards presented for international students

This year's German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) prize for outstanding achievements by international students at TU Darmstadt goes to Anna Klyushina, at the time of nomination a student on the Master's degree programme in Mechatronics with a specialisation in Robotics. The award, endowed with 1,000 euros, was presented at a ceremony at which the recipients of international scholarships from TU Darmstadt were also honoured.

Rapid team from TU Darmstadt successfully participates in rocket competition

The university group TU Darmstadt Space Technology e.V. (TUDSaT e.V.) made an extraordinary debut with its rocket ‘FRoDO-M’ in the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC) competition. At the event, which brought together student teams from across Europe in Ponte de Sor, Portugal, the Darmstadt group secured third place among 26 participating teams in the ‘Three kilometres with a commercial rocket motor’ category with its precise flight performance.

How to use

The Unite! Metacampus is designed for the realisation of courses and lectures within the framework of Unite! in which several Unite! partners work together collaboratively. It enables collaboration in a single system with simple and exclusive access for all Unite! members. A video explains how to get started with the Unite! federated digital learning management system (LMS).

Discover Unite!'s Best Practices Guide

Download the best practices and explore a comprehensive guide to improving work-life quality across the Unite! Alliance, offering inspiration and actionable examples from our nine universities.

The 2nd ryon Start-Up Summer School took place in Darmstadt in October 2024. Participants had the opportunity to take a look into the future of synthetic biology. Over five varied days, the international participants learnt a lot about business models and how to develop a business model from an idea into a professional pitch deck in just a few days. This year's event focussed on the topic of biomaterials in the context of the ‘CoM2Life’ cluster project, which is in the running for a top cluster in the renowned Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

Acommon repository available for all the Unite! community

All the exhausting work done by the Virtual Inclusion Office these past years related to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (I.D.E.A.) is now compiled and can be consulted in one platform accessible on Metacampus called “Unite! Network for Inclusion”. By housing these comprehensive resources, this common repository helps drive a coordinated and informed approach to inclusion and diversity across the Unite! alliance. This plays a critical role in fostering a more inclusive environment by offering a wide range of resources designed to promote best practices in diversity and inclusion.

TU researchers enable better protection for sending sensitive information

In today's digital landscape, ensuring the privacy of online communications is more critical than ever, especially in professions that rely on confidentiality, such as law or politics. Two research groups from the Profile Topic Cybersecurity and Privacy at TU Darmstadt have developed EMC² (Encrypted Multi-Channel Communication), a method that enhances the security of sensitive messages by distributing trust across several existing communication channels. The team's approach addresses the limitations of current encryption solutions, introduces a tool that makes secure communication more accessible, and shows the ineffectiveness of government-mandated backdoors.

TU Darmstadt and MIT develop methods for monitoring with machine learning

The safe use of lithium-ion batteries, such as those used in electric vehicles and stationary energy storage systems, critically depends on condition monitoring and early fault detection. Failures in individual battery cells can lead to serious issues, including fires. To mitigate these risks, researchers at TU Darmstadt and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed novel methods for battery analysis and monitoring that leverage physically constrained machine learning approaches.

TU Darmstadt and University of Sheffield present study at international conference

Robots can navigate efficiently through crowds of people by cleverly alternating between independent and cooperative behavior, and in such a way that they disturb the people around them as little as possible. This is the result of a study by TU Professor Roderich Groß.

LOEWE Start Professorship: Anna C. Bakenecker receives two million euros

Dr Anna C. Bakenecker has been awarded a LOEWE Start Professorship at TU Darmstadt. The expert in medical physics is working on the development, control and monitoring of nano- and microrobots that are designed to transport drugs to their target sites in the body. The LOEWE research funding programme of the state of Hesse is providing around two million euros over a period of six years.